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Thursday, September 17, 7:00 pm
Inside the “Native America” Issue with Wendy Red Star and Natalie Diaz
Join us for the first discussion in this series as we take a look inside the issue with guest editor Wendy Red Star and poet Natalie Diaz. “Native America” considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism. Red Star and Diaz will delve into the various topics, artists, and takeaways in the issue and discuss their own relationships to its contents.
Image: Wendy Red Star, Apsáalooke Roses, 2016. Courtesy the artist
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Thursday, September 24, 7:00 pm
On the Art of Kimowan Metchewais
Join us for a conversation about the work of Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais, whose multidisciplinary approach rearticulates colonial memory and explores the ground on which contemporary Native art and communities might stand. This panel brings together writer and art historian Christopher Green, filmmaker Christina Wegs, and artist Will Wilson, all of who will discuss Metchewais’s life and continuing influence on the art world.
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Image: Kimowan Metchewais, Raincloud, 2010. Courtesy the Kimowan Metchewais [McLain] Collection, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Thursday, October 1, 7:00 pm
Martine Gutierrez and Nadiah Rivera Fellah on Indigenous Woman
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with Parsons School of Design at The New School, is pleased to present a conversation between photographer Martine Gutierrez and curator Nadiah Rivera Fellah. In Gutierrez’s 2018 project Indigenous Woman, she created a 124-page art publication, playing the roles of photographer, stylist, creative director, editor in chief, and featured model. Throughout its pages, Gutierrez transforms herself into a revolving roster of identities. In this discussion, Gutierrez and Fellah will take an in-depth look at the project and navigating contemporary Indigeneity.
Image: Martine Gutierrez, Queer Rage, Dear Diary, No Signal During VH1’s Fiercest Divas, 2018; from the series Indigenous Woman. Courtesy the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
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Thursday, October 8, 7:00 pm
History Is Present: A Conversation with Alan Michelson and Chrissie Iles
For more than thirty years, New York–based artist Alan Michelson has produced evocative, influential works that excavate colonial histories of invasion and eviction. A Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Michelson uses photography, painting, video, and installation to create dynamic spaces of visual and auditory immersion. In this discussion, Michelson sits down with Chrissie Iles—who cocurated his 2019 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art—to discuss his career and the power of contemporary Indigenous art.
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Image: Alan Michelson, Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer), 2018. Courtesy the artist
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Saturday, October 3, 2:00 pm
Aperture Conversations: Wendy Red Star at Photoville
Join Photoville for an artist talk with Wendy Red Star as she discusses her 2017 project Um-basax-bilua (Where They Make the Noise) 1904–2016, a celebration of cultural perseverance, colonial resistance, and ingenuity. A visual record of found and personal photographs and cultural memorabilia, Red Star’s annotated timeline summarizes the century-long history of the Crow Fair, and examines the cultural shift from colonial forced assimilation to cultural reclamation.
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Image: Um-basax-bilua (Where They Make the Noise) 1904–2016 (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist
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